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...they learn about new cuisines, Americans are busy naturalizing foreign ingredients into native dishes: tofu, the cheeselike soybean curd, as the base for burgers and ice cream; tacos and pita as sandwich holders; chili oils and fruit sauces for barbecues. Surimi, a preserved-fish product developed in Japan a thousand years ago, has been reshaped for the American market to look like shrimp and crab legs. Tempeh, the Oriental fermented soybean cake, is here formed and flavored to simulate bacon and pastrami...
Although several elite brigades of counterinsurgency forces have engaged the contras with devastating effect, the government has not been able to move in for the kill. There are a number of reasons. Despite the assistance of several thousand Cuban military advisers, the Nicaraguan army suffers from "poor command and control," according to a U.S. military expert. Moreover, many Sandinista commanders prefer to stand off and lob rockets and shells rather than close with the enemy. Training is also slipshod: Nicaraguan draftees commonly enter the field after only two or three days of preparation...
Representative Michael Barnes, a Maryland Democrat who has long been critical , of the President's Central American policy, says that intelligence briefings indicate a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua would not be easy. It would take two or three weeks for troops to take the urban centers and several thousand lives would be lost on both sides, Barnes was told. "But then the Sandinistas would control the countryside," he says. From there they could wage a guerrilla war that would require a prolonged military occupation and counterinsurgency campaign. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra was quoted as saying, "This...
...what musical produced the tunes. Yet Kern realized better than anyone else that the melodic drama in so many of his songs -- of which the majestic cresting chorus of Ol' Man River is the most famous example -- demanded a dramatic anchor only the lyric theater could provide. Of the thousand or so songs he composed, the only familiar one not written for a show or movie was The Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till...
...moccasins; there is a choice between a dandy sandstorm and a typhoon of grasshoppers; Blue Duck is a menacing piece of work with his necklace of amputated fingers; a bear fights a bull to a draw; and a dead hero is packed in salt and carted more than a thousand ceremonious miles to his grave. There are also long, featureless stretches that add up to the reading equivalent of driving across Texas. But McMurtry knows exactly what he is doing in this sentimental epic. He is an uncommonly shrewd judge of book flesh...